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African Conservation Experience - Game Ranger and Wildlife Courses in Africa
The Wildlife Courses give a thorough introduction to the wildlife and habitats of South Africa and Botswana, from specific species management courses to game ranger guiding courses.
African Conservation Experience - Wildlife Tracking Course
The Wildlife Tracking Course teaches advanced tracking skills in the Tuli Wilderness of Botswana, covering reading tracks, interpreting wildlife behaviour and staying safe in the bush.
Tuli Conservation Project - Conservation in Botswana
The Tuli Conservation Project gives volunteers the opportunity to closely study two of Africa's famous big five species; the majestic African elephant and the secretive leopard, amongst the stunning Botswana wilderness.
A Land of Dust and Magic
"Tuli is a word meaning dust, depicting the conditions in the Tuli block during the dry season. I was fortunate enough to visit the property ';Tuli Wilderness' in the season change over through Nov...
Playing Hide And Seek With Elephants at Tuli
Volunteers at the Tuli Conservation Project spend most of their days monitoring the wildlife in the stunning Tuli block. While they learn to identify animal movements based on the tracks they find,...
Tracking wild cheetah, observing hunting behaviour and relocating brown hyena at Zingela
"Sitting at a hide on Sunday, we saw a cheetah coming to drink. It had been a good day already, we saw gemsbok and warthog, but this was just brilliant. We had heard the birds alarming for about fi...
Predator work updates from the bush...
Volunteering at Zingela Conservation Project , recent volunteers share some of their diary entries with us... Today we tracked a female cheetah on foot and it turned into an unexpected surprise! A...
The first tracker course was a great success!
The brand new tracker course ran for the first time in October 08, and proved to be a great success! It was a challenging experience for all involved, but the great news is that everyone managed t...
A walk in the bush with mum
Tuli has the last wild roaming population of elephants in southern Africa
Porcupine Tracks
On the wildlife tracking course students use their new tracking skills to locate wild animals in the bush
Cheetah Kill
The cheetah has an average hunting success rate of around 50% - half of its chases result in capture.
Tracking cheetah on foot!
Running at speeds between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mph) puts a great deal of strain on the cheetah's body. When sprinting, the cheetah's body temperature becomes so high that it would be deadly to continue; this is why the cheetah is often seen resting after it has caught its prey.
Cheetah at a kill
It is thought that cheetahs lose between approximately 10 to 15% of kills to the hyena.
Tracking cheetah using telemetry
Tracking cheetah and leopard using telemetry equipment and traditional tracking techniques is the main focus at Zingela Predator Conservation Project
A walk in the bush with mum
Each of the rhino's four stumpy feet has three toes, an ideal feature for tracking the world's largest land mammal (second to the elephant)
Close encounter with a leopard
At Phinda volunteers head out at night to track the elusive leopard. Once located and darted with a sedative, the volunteers help secure a radio collar and collect data on their condition
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